[Martinus]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Actually the Japanese are pretty big about Christmas. They do cakes and presents and such.

[color=66ff00]Cool, didn't know that. I read that the new year was a big deal but didn't realise Christmas was.[/color]

Originally posted by Nuke
bah humbug

[color=66ff00]*passes Nuke and redmenace a stripey mint*
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[Falcon]

*wishes he knew how to say Merry Christmas in Vasudan*

*also wonders if the shivans celebrate something like Christmas* :devil:

[Jetmech Jr.]

Merry Christmahanukwanzaa!

[Goober5000]

*smites the PC jetpunk*

Just pick one.

[Singh]

Merry Christmas HLP

I should go get a  nice pic or something of something firing a lot of Green and Red beams

[Liberator]

Originally posted by redmenace
Humbug

*smites redmenace across the back of the head like the Skipper to  Gilligan*

Cheer up, this is the one time of year even us perennially depressed folk have to cheer up!:D   Save it for the real downer holiday: St. Valentine's Day:sigh:

*hands redmenace some fresh, hot from the oven, homemade chocolate chip cookies*

Merry Christmas indeed.  I hope it's everything you expect on all fronts.

A question though, and this came to me on my way downstairs from my room at my parents, forget statistics, presents and all the superficial consumerist garbage.  How important a holiday is Christmas to you personally?  Do you look forward to seeing family?  The gigantic meal?  The music?  Religiously speaking, it's the second holiest day on the calender for Christians, but I know a great many of you don't practice any religion.  So what about Christmas is important to you?

I'll start.

I enjoy seeing my brother and sister and my extended family(aunts, uncles, as well as cousins & their kids).  The meal(s) are bad either.  But it's the family aspect that I look forward to the most.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Primus


....Don't understand it though

Santa Clause is supposed to give presents to those've been nice, but coal to those've been naughty.

Guess which list I'm on this year.

[aldo_14]

[q] It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you [/q]

[Gloriano]

Merry Christmas HLP!!!!

[Gortef]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Primus
Zalig Kerstfeast

'Zalig Kerstfeest' is Dutch I think you just misspelled the 'a'. In German it's Fröhliche Weihnachten.

[Sandwich]

Merry Christmas From Where It All Began™!



...Yeah, I live 15 minutes' walk from Bethlehem.

[Drew]

merry christmas

[Primus]

Originally posted by Liberator


A question though, and this came to me on my way downstairs from my room at my parents, forget statistics, presents and all the superficial consumerist garbage.  How important a holiday is Christmas to you personally?  Do you look forward to seeing family?  The gigantic meal?  The music?  Religiously speaking, it's the second holiest day on the calender for Christians, but I know a great many of you don't practice any religion.  So what about Christmas is important to you?

I'll start.

I enjoy seeing my brother and sister and my extended family(aunts, uncles, as well as cousins & their kids).  The meal(s) are bad either.  But it's the family aspect that I look forward to the most.

Very important. On Christmas I feel really peaceful. I love the food and, ofcourse, the presents .  I would like to spend the Christmas so that my whole family would be together, but unfortunately we are too far away from each other... But still I'm happy on Christmas.

Once more.. Merry Christmas all

[Clave]

Happy Spud Day!

Roast potatoes > you all....

[Nebiros]

Merry Christmas all!

Looking forward to some completed mods after Christmas...

[TopAce]

Have I wished Marry Christmas so far?
NOT?

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[Antares]

This got a good response last year, so I'm reviving it for the holiday.  Enjoy.  

Welcome to Beta Aquilae, pilots.  This is Admiral Marlowe, commanding officer of the GTD Leander.  Here's the situation.

48 hours ago, the GTVA Security Council ordered all Allied forces to a state of high alert following the emergence of Santa Claus from the Delta Serpentis-Sol jump node.  We are unsure as to how Saint Nicholas managed to reopen the damaged node, but the engine configuration of his sleigh is unlike any Terran, Vasudan, or Shivan design we have yet encountered.  Immediately after entering Delta Serpentis, Santa set a direct course for the Beta Aquilae jump node.

Fortunately, Santa's appearance has allowed us to resume contact with Earth after fifty years of isolation.  Remarkably, our home planet seems none the worse for wear after five decades apart from the Alliance.  Preparations are underway to incorporate Earth's standing GTA forces into the Allied Navy, and our best scientists are poring over the discoveries made at the GTA Science Colony in Sol during the system's exile.

Strangely, Earth's inhabitants seem just as perplexed by the intervention of Santa Claus as we are.  Preliminary reports from Sol indicate that Santa himself has never made a personal appearance in all the time that our homeworld has been seperated from the Alliance.

Whatever the reason for his emergece, it appears that we are lucky; Santa appears to be on our side.  Upon arrival here in Beta Aquilae, Santa and his escort of Elf-class fighters engaged and decimated the Shivan forces present in-system, destroying the SC Gehenna, the SD Beelzebub, and the SJ Ragnarok, along with numerous fighter and bomber wings.

Eight hours ago, Santa's sleigh made the jump to the Vega system, where it currently remains idle.  We do not know if Saint Nicholas is waiting for something, or if he is attempting to stabilize the collapsed Capella jump node, just as he did for the passageway between the GTVA and Earth.  In any case, we are hesitant to intervene, for Kris Kringle's technological capabilities far exceed those of anything in the Terran or Vasudan arsenal.

Scans of Santa's sleigh indicate that despite lacking an energy shielding system, its hull is composed of a substance not corresponding to any of the 150 known elements on the periodic table, and is at least four times stronger than standard Terran neosteel.  The sleigh itself has been clocked at speeds as high as 650 kilometers per second, a measurement roughly on par with our scientists' estimates of the vessel's peformance.  This figure, of course, assumes that the ion engines mounted upon all eight of Santa's standard reindeer are functioning normally; it is believed that the vehicle can travel in excess of 1000 kilometers per second with the presence of Rudolph.

The reindeer themselves present an intruiging technological dilemma for our researchers; the animals obviously contribute to the functionality of the sleigh, but our scan data indicates that they have received minimum cybernetic enhancement.  Dr. Mina Hargrove has determined that each pair of reindeer performs a given function, with one serving as a backup in case the other should fail.  Dasher and Dancer appear to provide Santa with high-level senor and navigational support.  Our science vessels have detected strange subspace signals emanating from Prancer and Vixen, suggesting that they maintain communications contact with another party... presumably Santa's Arctic base on Earth.  We aren't yet certain, but the boys in the lab believe that Comet and Cupid provide the sleigh's engines with additional power, and may serve to generate the immense subspace field the vessel uses to make jumps.

Santa's weaponry is unquestionably more advanced than any armaments possessed by the Alliance.  Donner and Blitzen's antler-mounted beam cannons seem capable of producing a molecular-disruption effect unlike anything our physicists have yet observed, even with Shivan weapons.  Most imposing by far is the destructive power of Rudolph's nose; it was a single blast from what our scientists have nicknamed the "Holly Jolly Death Ray" that destroyed the SJ Ragnarok and atomized the remainder of the Shivan fleet.  It has been theorized that the ninth reindeer may also provide the sleigh with more precise navigational data.

The sleigh itself is equipped with a number of other armaments, although the full extent of its offensive capabilities has yet to be determined.  We know for certain that Santa's Jingle Bombs rival the power of our own Helios torpedoes, and that his Missletoe-class munitions are able to track and destroy multiple targets simultaneously.  The vehicle's primary weapon is some variety of laser/photon beam hybrid capable of ignoring energy shields entirely and causing severe subsystem disruption.  We believe that these Tinsel Beams cause a considerable energy drain, but we have yet to determine the precise power output of the sleigh's unique Fruitcake Reactor.

An analysis of the Shivan debris field yielded regrettably few results.  In addition to the remains of Shivan craft, our salvage crews recovered what have been identified as several large lumps of coal, and--oddly enough--a pair of turtle doves, a partridge, and a Terran pear tree, all frozen in cryostasis.

Attempts to establish communications with Santa have failed.  Saint Nicholas appears to broadcast on a subspace radio frequency that is slightly skewed from Allied channels.  During the battle with the Shivans, Santa was heard to remark, "You've all been very naughty", but our technicians have been unable to determine the precise channel on which to send a signal in reply.

Fortunately, Father Christmas does not seem interested in a conflict with Allied forces.  He has ignored all Terran and Vasudan vessels up to this point, and focused his attention entirely upon the Shivans.  GTVA High Command has decided to err on the side of caution, however, and has ordered all Vasudan craft to avoid contact with Santa.  His presence in Allied space has made the Vasudans more than a little nervous, and we can only assume that he is unfamiliar with our alien allies, as well.

Our orders are to remain stationed in Beta Aquilae until the situation changes.  Several science cruisers are currently monitoring Santa's status and learning more about the specifics of his technology.  The data we've gathered already will no doubt bring great strides to GTVA fighter and bomber design.  You'll be informed of any significant advances on a need-to-know basis.

Stay on your toes, pilots.  Things have been going well for us so far, but there's no telling how all of this will turn out.  Right now, we can do little more than watch and listen.  Whatever Santa Claus is waiting for, we have no choice but to wait for it as well.

The first patrol shift begins at 1400 hours.  Dismissed!

[Goober5000]

That reminds me... check the Port forum in a few minutes.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Falcon
*wishes he knew how to say Merry Christmas in Vasudan*
 

Gou'zhruckta Hratshlamekk